Please note: The IPA is an educational/informational
organization that
provides guidelines but does not regulate primal practioners. If
you are seeking a facilitator of primal work, we recommend that
you contact potential practitioners to inquire about their qualifications
and experience, as well as to get a sense of how they work, in order
to find the most suitable practitioner for your needs.

Fear Memory Integration
I'm a Certified Primal Integration Educator, who did his own personal therapy with Arthur Janov's therapists, and also with Paul Vereshack, Barbara Bryan, and Sam Turton. I graduated from the therapist training program that Sam and Barb developed. And I've been involved in men's leadership training, vision questing, and the men's movement in general. I have 15 years of experience in private practice.

Between September 1992 and November 1996, I trained with Dr. Jonathon Christie and Dr. Arthur Janov at Dr. Janov’s International Primal Training and Treatment Center in Venice, California. I offer a holistic approach to Primal, working with you to mitigate the effects of original “Primal” traumas while simultaneously helping you to function and improve your quality of life in the present. This preempts the tendency to “wait for the next feeling” to change one’s self destructive or otherwise unwanted behavior and accelerates healing. I work with individuals, couples, families, children, and adolescents. I also offer film consultation (MA Cinema Production U. So. California ). See my website for more details.

IPA Members Offering Primal Work

Primal center providing access to a specialized primal room called a vibroacoustic lodge. Using auditory and vibration stimulation, this lodge triggers past traumatic experiences and facilitates Deep Feeling Release. This new process should be used cautiously within psychotherapy. In addition, clients have to be supervised by a psychologist or other clinical professional. Free trial is offered to familiarize yourself with such an efficient tool.
These relived experiences follow primal tradition by bringing the person directly to his primal pain, liberating its intensity session by session. For those who want to get there, here’s a powerful tool.

Practitioners of Primal Integration. Originally
trained with Bill Swartley, further training with Frank Lake
and others. Comprehensive programme of monthly weekend groups,
weekly ongoing groups, residential group intensives and regular
individual sessions, running at the Open Centre in London and
elsewhere in England since 1979.

I offer a safe & loving container for people to unfold and heal in their own way and time. With a background in primal integration and mindfulness practice, I facilitate both individual and group work. My background includes apprenticeship training with Sam Turton as well as other teachers in modalities such as the vision quest, ecstatic dance, meditation and consciousness exploration. Through a holistic approach to well-being, including deep emotional release & integration, clients are able to find more clarity & presence. My work in the fields of community building, nature connection and attachment parenting are assets in cultivating a broader sense of wholeness.

Dianea is a psychotherapist since 1985 whose primal practice began in 1994. She attended Janov's Primal Center 1996-97. She has written five books about the healing power of tears, two for children. Her latest, TEARS ARE TRUST...waiting to be felt won Finalist in the mental health category from National Best Books Awards. TEARS ARE TRUE LOVE...waiting to be known will be published 2013.

Marie Regis
29 Barstow Rd., Suite 304Great Neck, NY
USA 11021

Phone: 516-455-2206
Email: mregis51@gmail.com

Marie Regis is a Licensed Acupuncturist trained in Classical Acupuncture and a Licensed Massage Therapist. She has served as a facilitator at Noah's Ark, a 40 day multi-modal psychotherapy training program in 1998 and 2000. She was mentored by the late Bill Smukler, PhD psychotherapist in Sand play therapy and deep feeling therapies on both at the Arks and in his private practice between 1994 and 2000. She specializes in treating trauma and emotional issues with classical acupuncture and CranioSacral therapy, including SomatoEmotional Release. She also uses essential oils or Reiki if needed. Marie approaches each client with skill, sensitivity and deep respect.
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Marie Regis, L.Ac.
Licensed Acupuncturist
Great Neck NY

I was trained by Bill Swartley in the years before he died, and was part of the
same group with Richard Mowbray and Juliana Brown. I work in private
practice in North-East London, and offer coaching and spiritual mentoring
as well as Primal Integration therapy. My chapter on Primal Integration is still up on the IPA website. I have been interested recently in the question
of why Primal Integration is always ignored in books on Integration in
Psychotherapy, and my article -"Don't you Dare to Ignore the Transpersonal!"
was published recently.

Emotion-focused and body-centered psychotherapy in
the Primal tradition. Bachelor's degree in Mental Health Counseling and Master's
degree in Community Counseling. Over 25 years of experience in primal techniques
and theory as a client, therapist-trainee, and therapist. Specializing in
PTSD, birth and intrauterine trauma, childhood developmental wounding, and
grief/loss work.